Egyptian Muslim Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Murdering Christian Priest

Coptic priest Samaan Shehta stabbed to death in Cairo, Egypt, on October 12, 2017.

A Muslim radical who brutally murdered a Coptic Christian priest on the streets of Cairo in Egypt last year was sentenced to death by hanging on Monday by the Cairo Criminal Court.

According to Gulf News, Egypt’s top Islamic official, the Grand Mufti, approved the sentence for Ahmad Saeed, the militant who in October 2017 fatally stabbed Samaan Shehata with a long knife, leaving him to bleed to death.

Saeed injured another Coptic clergyman who was with Shehata in the same incident, but he survived.